Which Gadgets Are On Your Christmas List? [You Told Us]

It’s Christmas, or near enough. We’re certainly a fair way into the holiday season, with Thanksgiving and the start of the shopping season behind us, and the countdown to the big day well and truly underway (as evidenced by these animated lights displays). You probably should have written up your Christmas list by now, and, if you’re so inclined, posted it off to Santa Claus.

Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, and if so, whatever your personal reasons are for doing so, we decided to find out what was the first thing on your list of gift ideas. As long as it could be classified as a “gadget,” it was an existing product, and it was on your actual Christmas list, then it was fine by us.

Which Gadgets Are On Your Christmas List?

We asked you, Which Gadgets Are On Your Christmas List? We had a good number of responses, with dozens of you eloquently describing your number one electronic product of choice this holiday season. A wide variety of gadgets and gizmos were mentioned, from video games to computer hardware, from eBook readers to televisions. However, there was a certain trend running through the comments thread.

The trend was for mobile devices, essentially smartphones and tablets. Those mentioned include the Samsung Galaxy Note II, the Microsoft Surface, the latest iPad and latest iPhone, the Google Nexus 7 and Nexus 4, the Amazon Kindle Fire HD, and the Windows Phone 8-powered Nokia Lumia 920. Which is a pretty sweet list of gadgets for any geek to drool over. I certainly wouldn’t say no to any of them.

Comment Of The Week

We had great input from the likes of Gaurav Nelson, Tarek Deeb, and Wade Potter, to name just a few. Comment Of The Week goes to Rajaa Chowdhury, who, as well as the respect of myself and hopefully everybody reading this, receives 150 points to use for MakeUseOf Rewards. He said:

Though India has a sizable Christian population, we are majorly a Hindu majority country. However, we still have embraced Christmas and New Year and enjoy the festivity in full swing. Me hailing from Kolkata, a predominantly Bengali region, though we do enjoy Christmas (however, we do not attend mass at church, though the Christian community do), our biggest festival where we shop till we drop similarly to Christmas shopping is the Durga Puja. However, there is no harm in having my gadget wishlist still and there is no tax in dreaming what I would like to have. So here it goes:

Hehehe. I need a awesome number of rocking friends for this to ever come true and I do not own a single of the wishlisted item. Dream on, dream on, dream on!!!

Not only does this comment contain a long wishlist of gadgets — and I sincerely hope he gets at least one thing he’s hoping for soon – Rajaa also details what Christmas means to him personally. It’s these kinds of comments, which go the extra mile and add some background to put the whole thing in context, that usually manage to stand out from the crowd.

We will be asking a new question tomorrow, so please join us then. We Ask You is a weekly column dedicated to finding out the opinions of MakeUseOf readers. We ask you a question and you tell us what you think. The question is open-ended and is usually open to debate. Some questions will be purely opinion-based, while others will see you sharing tips and advice, or advocating tools and apps for your fellow MakeUseOf readers. This column is nothing without your input, all of which is valued.